Suspended – Your handwriting, fantastic!!!!! The rest, I share your worries. But perhaps he deliberately didn’t leaves instructions for anything, not even a will. Maybe he knew it was more than most people can ask to have control of things in this life, let alone the next one.

I’m going 2 try to go with this thought, because it’s comforting.

I was never really in love with Prince’s persona but I did love his music. I was as shocked as everyone else. I always imagined Prince would be rocking us all in to old age, like Roy Ayers; Still on this planet making great music at 76yrs old. The thought of Prince not fulfilling a long, creative life is tragic.

Everyone always compliments my handwriting. What they don’t know is that when I was about 14 I copied the typeface from the back or Prince’s “I Wish U Heaven” 7″ which had the lyrics printed down the back. Every time my pen touches paper there’s a little bit of Prince on my page.

My biggest fear now is that his massive body of unreleased work gets churned out and shit on by profiteering snakes that have no desire to follow Prince’s very public principles. I watched the Kevin Smith video where he states that a member of Prince’s staff told him there are more than 50 expensive pop videos for songs that have never been released, all in Prince’s vault. I want to hear new music but not if Prince didn’t want us to hear it. I’m cool with that. I’d rather his integrity be maintained but, admittedly, I also like the idea of him still being with us, still being able to surprise and delight us, still helping complete our lives soundtrack.

I guess through all of his controlling ways and totally eccentric possessiveness, life taught him the biggest lesson…you can’t take it with you. His music is flying up on Youtube now and he isn’t around to stop it, something he spent a great deal of time and money trying to manage and maintain and for what?

I’ll admit to having to pull out my hankie at the news of Prince’s passing. I’ll further admit to having done so on two such occasions with “mere musicians” in mind.

Possibly three times but 1980 was so long ago and, I was soon after I heard the news so professionally drunk I can’t keep straight just what brought my blubbering. [Whether the musician or, on the very day … I do recall it being one hectic 24 hours … I left the uniformed services, I got served with divorce papers.] Whichever brought the tear as I best recall was the one I never saw coming.

So sad was I (1980) I re-enlisted.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/wanna-come-to-princes-house/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160428_Weekly_Highlights_17

Thank you! I feel like I was there with you and your sister.